Printer&#39;s form or chase rack.



PBINTERS FORM 08 CHASE RACK (Application fil ed Mar. 11, 1902.

(No Model.)

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UNrr D STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GIBBARD RICHARD HUGHES, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

PRINTERS FORM OR CHASE RACK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of LettersPatent N0."7'03,'264, dated June 24, 1902 Application filed March 17, 1902. serial No. 98,605. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GIBBARD RICHARD HUGHES, merchant, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at 77 Leadenhall.

street, in the city of London, England, have invented a Printing Form or Chase Rack, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a rack for holding printing forms or chases of varying sizes and in such a manner as to prevent injury to the face of the type and friction between the sides of the forms or chases and the rack.

In the accompanying drawings,Figure 1 is a perspective view of a part of a form or chase rack made according to thisinvention. Fig. 2 is a plan of one of the guiding-arms on an enlarged scale, and Fig. 3 is a modification of Fig. 1.

The same parts are lettered to correspond in all the figures.

Referring to Figs. 1 and 2, to carry out my arranging these battens or fillets a so as tov form or provide grooves or spaces (Z between them, the said fillets forming guides for the forms, and in said grooves or spaces at I mount antifriction-rollers c to receive or carry the lower sides of the forms 0. Onto the side of the wall or other convenient part of the room or receptacle Z) I fix, by suitable brackets or holdfasts f or equivalent means, a horizontal rod or tube on which a number of sleeves 7b are separately and loosely mounted in positions corresponding to the floor-grooves d between the battens or fillets a; To .each sleeve h is rigidly affixed an arm or. rod 1', (see Fig. 2,) bifurcated at its free end to receive the top edge of the formor chase c and having an antifriction-roller 76 mounted at the fork of the bifurcation or thereabout. When the form or chase a is pushed into the rack between the floor-grooves d, the corresponding arm or rod '5 will rest on the'iform or chase c, with itsforked ends lyingone on each side and its roller 7:; on the top'or upper side of said form. The arm. or rod t being fast on the sleeve 76, which is free to turn on the fixed horizontal tube or rod will rise or fall freely, according to the height of the form tion the horizontal rod or tubeg is shown supported on standards 7, secured to the base- .plate I). v

hat I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

lfA printing form or chase rack comprising a base,'guides carried by said base and between which the form is adapted to be guided, and an arm loosely mounted at one end andadapted to engage at its opposite end with the upper edge of a form, in the manner 'and' for the purpose specified.

2. A printing form or chase rack compris ing a base, guides carrie'd by said base between which a form is adapted to be guided, antifriction-rollers carriedby the base and adapted to take against the lower edge of the form, an arm loosely mounted at one end and forked at the opposite end and an antifriction-roller between the forks of the arm, all arranged for cooperation as and for the purpose specified.

3. Aprinting form or chase-rack comprisin g a base, horizontal antifriotion-rollers carried by the base and forming guides for the form or chase,vertical antifriction-rollers car ried by the base against which the lower edge of the form is adapted to bear, an arm loosely mounted at one end and forked at the oppositeiend, and. an antifriction-roller between the forks of the arm, all arranged for cooperation as and for the purpose specified.

' In testimony whereof. I have hereunto set my hand, in 'presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 4th day ofMarch,"1902.

GIBBARD RICHARD HUGHES.

Witnesses:

W. M. HARRIS, W. J. SKERTEN. 

